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19/02/2018
Milestone Reached On £1.5bn A14 Improvement Scheme
A milestone has been reached on Highways England's £1.5 billion A14 major improvement scheme.
The second of 34 bridges on the project, connecting Brampton and Grafham in Cambridgeshire, has been completed by the A14 Integrated Delivery Team (Balfour Beatty, Skanska and Costain).
The new bridge is 50 metres longer than the previous structure, spanning both the new A1 and future A14 – totalling 10 lanes of carriageway.
The previous structure will be demolished by excavators over the coming days and the concrete recovered will be crushed and reused on the project.
Once finished, the A14 improvement scheme will see a 21-mile stretch of the A14 between Cambridge and Huntingdon upgraded from two to three lanes in each direction, including a new 17-mile bypass south of Huntingdon.
Mike Evans, Highways England senior stakeholder manager for the scheme, said: "The Brampton Road bridge is an important link for communities living across the A1 and A14 just south of Huntingdon and we are delighted that many turned up to mark the occasion and open the new bridge to traffic with us.
"Now that the new bridge is opened we can get on with demolishing the old bridge and continue building the new A1 and A14 carriageways at this location and keep to the project's challenging timetable to open the new A14 to traffic by the end of 2020."
Image credit: Highways England.
(LM)
The second of 34 bridges on the project, connecting Brampton and Grafham in Cambridgeshire, has been completed by the A14 Integrated Delivery Team (Balfour Beatty, Skanska and Costain).
The new bridge is 50 metres longer than the previous structure, spanning both the new A1 and future A14 – totalling 10 lanes of carriageway.
The previous structure will be demolished by excavators over the coming days and the concrete recovered will be crushed and reused on the project.
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Once finished, the A14 improvement scheme will see a 21-mile stretch of the A14 between Cambridge and Huntingdon upgraded from two to three lanes in each direction, including a new 17-mile bypass south of Huntingdon.
Mike Evans, Highways England senior stakeholder manager for the scheme, said: "The Brampton Road bridge is an important link for communities living across the A1 and A14 just south of Huntingdon and we are delighted that many turned up to mark the occasion and open the new bridge to traffic with us.
"Now that the new bridge is opened we can get on with demolishing the old bridge and continue building the new A1 and A14 carriageways at this location and keep to the project's challenging timetable to open the new A14 to traffic by the end of 2020."
Image credit: Highways England.
(LM)
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